1963-1969 Live: Magic Sam: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Every Night About This Time

2. Don't Believe You'd Let Me Down

3. Mole's Blues

4. I Just Got To Know

5. Tore Down

6. You Were Wrong

7. Backstroke

8. Come On In This House

9. Riding High

10. San-Ho-Say

11. I Need You So Bad

12. Strange Things Happening

13. I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie)

14. All Your Love

15. Sweet Home Chicago

16. Looking Good

17. Looking Good (Encore)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Electrifying performances, horrible sound quality, July 30 2003

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1963-1969 Live (Audio CD)

I'm not kidding, this is not for audiophiles. Considering that these performanced were taped in the 60s using ordinary tape recorders it doesn't excactly come as a surprise, but, really, the sound is awful.

The music is superb, though. Screaming lead guitar and vocals to rival Elmore James (well, almost), and powerful live renditions of some of the best songs in Sam Maghett's repertoire.
He does a riveting version of Fats Domino's "Every Night About This Time", an intense "I Just Got To Know", and a rocking "I'm Tore Down", and he plays some white-hot guitar on the instrumental "Mole's Blues".

The Ann Arbor cuts include a funky take on Freddie King's "San-Ho-Say", the slow blues "Strange Thing Happening" and "All Of Your Love", and Magic Sam's scorching take on Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago".
His guitar playing on this album has to be heard to believed, and I'm not easily impressed...I have too many blues records for that.

If only he had been recorded using some decent equipment. A "real" live album by Magic Sam would undoubtedly have been one of the all-time great blues records, but he never was, so this is all we have.

Still, Magic Sam Maghett plays some fabulous blues guitar on these cuts, even better than his studio waxings, and his vocals are sublime.
Okay, so the sound may be terrible, but get it anyway. It's all worth it to hear these incredible live performances.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Wolf in sheeps clothing..., Nov 4 2001

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L.B Meinomore (Allisonville, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1963-1969 Live (Audio CD)

I mean come on! Magic Sam has really lost it.The entire CD is billed as believable and exciting while it's nothing but a shell of a lost blues man. His music is delirious,lazy and unsatisfying. Glad I'm not faking anymore. I've moved on to Gary L. and the like for freshness and variety. Magic Sam is the same old tune over and over and it only plays in ONE ROOM.to just have to look at himself age in the mirror must be quite a task these days considering the amount of effort he must put in everyday. Well, even our old friend Chester and his dog couldn't save him from his impending destruction. The magic is gone and the real Sam is nothing special at all. I guess he'll just do another CD in another town where the disguise is still selling.

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5.0 out of 5 stars best chicago blues live ever recorded., Feb 16 2000

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This review is from: 1963-1969 Live (Audio CD)

magic sam's best live album. the best chicago blues album of all time. together with live woodstock of jimi hendrix, this cd must be added to your collection.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A must if you like Magic Sam
In the summer of 1969 I had the pleasure of attending the Ann Arbor Blues Festival. It was my privilege to be exposed for the first time in my young life to some of the biggest... Read more

Published on April 8 1999 by Paul W. Benjamin

5.0 out of 5 stars A gem!
A great, great record! For all of us who never had the chance to hear Magic Sam live this is the closest thing to a cure. Great club/on-stage atmosphere. Read more

Published on Jan 26 1999 by Jeffrey A. Hatcher